Letters to the Editor: ‘The potential of AI to take over our each day life is grossly exaggerated’

To the editor: It might be straightforward to conclude that contributing author Matt Lewis is simply too younger to have learn the heavyweight press within the Nineteen Seventies, when the media had simply found the microchip (“AI can be extra disruptive than COVID. Which get together can seize the second?,” Aug. 15). He would have learn infinite screeds about what number of hundreds of thousands can be put out of labor, with their expertise on the junk heap, agonizing over how we are going to ever fill these infinite hours of leisure.

It didn’t occur. And but our reminiscences are so quick that once more we discover acres of newsprint crammed with the declarations of pundits telling us that many extra hundreds of thousands of jobs can be worn out by the irresistible energy of synthetic intelligence. We have to face the truth that the potential of AI to take over our each day life is grossly exaggerated. That is already changing into apparent. Simply be aware of the variety of courtroom circumstances which have been thrown out as a result of the citations dug up by AI have been nonsense. A main examine on kids’s well being promoted by the Division of Well being has been proven to be based mostly on references collected by AI which can be both nonexistent or fatally flawed.

The info on which AI bases its pronouncements is all revealed data. A lot of it’s misinformation. The concept giant language fashions will be capable to study to inform the distinction is pie within the sky.

Rory Johnston, Hollywood
This author is a co-author of the 1985 e book “The Information Machine: Synthetic Intelligence and the Way forward for Man.”